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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96951

USS Valley Forge (CV-45)


Liberty party boards a motor launch to go ashore, as the carrier was replenishing at Sasebo, Japan, during a break from Korean War operations.
Original photo is dated 23 August 1950.
This view looks forward from amidships along the ship's port side. The deck-edge elevator is visible in the upper left.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 130KB; 600 x 765 pixels

 

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2 September 1999